Arshiya Lokhandwala

Arshiya Lokhandwala is an art historian, curator and founder of Lakeeren Art Gallery (1995-2003) in Mumbai, India. She completed her BA and MA in Sociology in 1986 and 1991 respectively. Arshiya is a recipient of the Charles Wallace India Trust award in 2001 for an MA in Creative Curating at Goldsmiths College, London. She was a participant at the Documenta 11 Education program in Kassel in 2002. Lokhandwala curated Rites/Rights/Rewrites: Women’s Video Art. She writes on the globalization of art, feminism, performance art and new media.

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Reconstructing Visual Imagery in the Age of Mass Production

by Arshiya Lokhandwala

How has the imagery of popular visual culture in India been constructed? In what manner has modernity within the Indian context been formed? These and more questions are central to the exhibition Indian Popular Visual Culture: The Conquest of the World as Picture curated by Jyotindra Jain at